The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 07, July 1888 eBook

JOHN M. STEARNS

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VALUED APPRECIATION.

B.M. Zettler, Esq., who for many
years has been in charge of the public schools
of Macon, Ga., and who has, therefore, eminent
qualifications for pronouncing judgment in regard to
schools and school work, has written the following
in reference to the Lewis Normal Institute of
Macon. We are always glad to welcome the
inspection of our schools by our Southern friends,
and are specially gratified with their approval
of our work.

Having had this year for the first time since Lewis
School was placed under your charge, an opportunity
to see the institution “from the inside,”
I desire to place in your hands a brief statement of
my impressions concerning the school and its work.
And while I do this (without solicitation) for the
encouragement of yourself and associates, I have no
objection to the use of the statement in any way that
you may see fit. I confess I was not prepared
to see so many practical, common-sense features in
the school. I refer especially to the well conducted
industrial departments, and the prominence given to
moral training.

{pg 213} The teachers impressed me as being not only
qualified, zealous and skillful, but as possessing
a genuine interest in their work that is as inspiring
as it is beautiful and becoming. The results of
their labors as I witnessed them in the closing exercises
were such as always follow where skill, good judgment
and zeal are brought to bear.

I am satisfied that you, and the noble ladies associated
with you, are doing a good work among our colored
people, and that, too, in a way that leaves no room
with fair-minded men for adverse criticism in any
direction. In leaving our city for the summer
vacation, you take with you my earnest wish that you
may have a season of genuine rest and recuperation
and that a kind Providence may return you to us in
the fall, to continue your “labor of love”
in Macon.

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THE CHINESE.

Our missions in San Francisco observed
their thirteenth (public) anniversary on Sunday
evening, May 30th, at Bethany Church. The
audience—­partly American, partly Chinese—­crowded
not the pews only, but most of the aisles.
The service was impressive and deeply interesting.
Lack of space forbids my attempting to describe
it in detail, but I forward for the readers of
the MISSIONARY the following address, delivered by
Fung Jung, who has recently entered upon work as
a missionary helper.

WM. C. POND.

SCHOOL LIFE IN CHINA.

I suppose you would like to hear about the school
life of the children in China. The girls are
never sent to school, as the Chinese do not think
it is necessary for girls to be educated. Nearly
every boy is sent to school at about the same age
as your American boys, six or seven. From this
time the boy’s playing days are over. If
the teacher sees or hears that any one has been playing
after the school hour, he would be severely punished.
What would your American boys think of such treatment?